Sentence examples for backup conductor from inspiring English sources
It is not fair to ask such a consequential artist to be a backup conductor.
A backup conductor began the rehearsal; Mr. Gergiev said he was late because he needed to ice a knee he banged while making tea.
He collaborated with Welk on a popular compilation of the world's greatest polkas, and he worked as backup conductor, assistant band director and stage manager -- "my right-hand man for over 30 years," Welk later called him.
The orchestra's management has prudently engaged backup conductors to cover Mr. Levine's concerts this season: a hefty workload that includes three Mahler symphonies, a double bill of Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle" and Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," the premiere of a work by Harrison Birtwistle and the start of a John Harbison symphony cycle.
March 9 at 8: The conductor and his band act as backup group for the freak-folk avatars Antony and the Johnsons, who will perform several new songs in arrangements by Nico Muhly.
The conductor nodded vigorously.
